This painting of two dancers and their long-suffering servants fetched the highest price ever for a Scottish painter.

Here is a further selection of the artist's work from the BBC website.

What do you think?

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Vettriano fetches record price From the BBC website

The most famous painting by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has smashed all expectations, selling for £744,800 at auction.
The Singing Butler had been expected to fetch up to £200,000 at Sotheby's spring sale.

The most popular art print in the UK, the artwork sold for £90,000 when it was last auctioned in August.

Heh, I have to respond to this one. I for one have a print of this particular painting hanging in my room. I love it just because the way the couple is portrayed. They would dance even if no one was there to hold umbrellas over them. They dance together as an expression of love and to me they feel as if they're alone. I don't think the servants are long suffering. In some households butlers and housekeepers have a longstanding loyalty to their employers especially if they've worked for them for a long time. It looks to me as if it's concern that makes them want to shield the couple with the umbrellas from the elements but the couple's love expressed through a waltz makes them alone in this picture.

I agree with lilliana on this one...We may have differing opinions on the technical quality, subject matter, composition, interpretation, etc. of a piece of art but to label a work "bad" treads on perilous ground...So many great works of art, ballets included, were derided in their day by critics, only to be hailed as masterpieces centuries later. Van Gogh, anyone? :p

It's "bad" in the sense of naughty. A piece can be a masterwork and still be naughty; the naughtiness can even be a part of its appeal. Some masterpieces are too naughty for their time (eg: Mozart's Magic Flute).

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